Parallel Verses
Montgomery New Testament
"but if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be darkened. If then the very light within you is darkness, how dense is that darkness!
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. Therefore, if the light within you has turned into darkness, how great is that darkness!"
A Conservative Version
But if thine eye is bad, thy whole body will be dark. If therefore the light that is in thee is darkness, how great is the darkness!
American Standard Version
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is the darkness!
Amplified
An Understandable Version
But if your eye sees things wrongly, [then] your whole body [i.e., your entire life] will be full of darkness [i.e., will not be lived properly]. If therefore, the light you have is [really] darkness [i.e., if you are not seeing life properly], that darkness will be very great [i.e., you cannot possibly live properly].
Anderson New Testament
But if your eye be diseased, your whole body will be dark. If therefore, the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
Bible in Basic English
But if your eye is evil, all your body will be dark. If then the light which is in you is dark, how dark it will be!
Common New Testament
But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
Daniel Mace New Testament
but if your eye be bad, your whole body will be dark: if therefore that, which should be light to you, be dark; how great is that darkness?
Darby Translation
but if thine eye be wicked, thy whole body will be dark. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great the darkness!
Godbey New Testament
If thine eye may be bad, thy whole body will be dark. Then if the light which is in you is darkness, the darkness is so great.
Goodspeed New Testament
but if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be dark. If, therefore, your very light is darkness, how deep the darkness will be!
John Wesley New Testament
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness: if therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness?
Julia Smith Translation
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be dark. If therefore the light which in thee is darkness, how much the darkness
King James 2000
But if your eye be evil, your whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you be darkness, how great is that darkness!
Lexham Expanded Bible
But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. Therefore if the light in you is darkness, how great [is] the darkness!
Modern King James verseion
But if your eye is evil, your whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But and if thine eye be wicked, then all thy body shall be full of darkness. Wherefore if the light that is in thee, be darkness: how great is that darkness?
Moffatt New Testament
but if your Eye is selfish, the whole of your body will be darkened. And if your very light turns dark, then ??what a darkness it is!
NET Bible
But if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
New Heart English Bible
But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness.
Noyes New Testament
but if thine eye be disordered, thy whole body will be in darkness. If then the light that is within thee is darkness, how great that darkness!
Sawyer New Testament
but if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. If, therefore, the light which is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
The Emphasized Bible
But, if thine eye be, evil, thy whole body, shall be, in the dark; - if therefore, the light which is in thee, is, darkness, the darkness, how great!
Thomas Haweis New Testament
But if thine eye be vitiated, thy whole body will be darkened. If therefore the light which is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
Twentieth Century New Testament
But, if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be darkened. And, if the inner light is darkness, how intense must that darkness be!
Webster
But if thy eye be evil, thy whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee is darkness, how great is that darkness!
Weymouth New Testament
but if your eyesight is bad, your whole body will be dark. If however the very light within you is darkness, how dense must the darkness be!
Williams New Testament
But if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the very source of light in you is darkness, how dense is that darkness!
World English Bible
But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
Worrell New Testament
but, if your eye be evil, your whole body will be dark. If, therefore, the light that is in you be darkness, how great the darkness!
Worsley New Testament
but if thine eye be bad, thy whole body will be dark. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
Youngs Literal Translation
but if thine eye may be evil, all thy body shall be dark; if, therefore, the light that is in thee is darkness -- the darkness, how great!
Themes
Blindness » Example of spiritual
spiritual Blindness » The effect of sin
Darkness » The wicked » Being Full of
Eyes » Illustrative » Of the mind
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References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Matthew 6:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Light Of The Body
22 "The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore if your eye is sound, your whole body will be well lighted; 23 "but if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be darkened. If then the very light within you is darkness, how dense is that darkness! 24 "No slave can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will pay heed to the one and despise the other. You cannot be the slaves both of God and of gold.
Cross References
Matthew 6:22
"The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore if your eye is sound, your whole body will be well lighted;
Matthew 20:15
"Have I not the right to do what I choose with my own property? Or is your eye evil because I am generous?'
Matthew 23:16-28
"Woe unto you, blind guides, who say, If any one swears by the Sanctuary, it is nothing, but if any one swears by the gold of the Sanctuary, the oath is binding.
Luke 8:10
He answered. "To you it is given to understand the mysteries of the kingdom of God; But all others are taught in parables so that seeing they shall not see, and hearing they shall not hear.
John 9:39-41
"For judgment am I come into the world, to make the sightless see, and to make the seeing blind."
Romans 1:22
While they professed to be wise, they became fools,
Romans 2:17-23
Now if you bear the name of a Jew, and rely upon law, and boast yourself in God,
1 Corinthians 1:18-20
For the message of the Cross is indeed for those on their way to destruction, foolishness; but for us who are on our way to salvation it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians 3:18-19
Let no one deceive himself. If any one of you supposes that he is wise in the philosophy of the present age, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.
Ephesians 4:18
having their understanding darkened, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.
Ephesians 5:8
For you were once darkness, but are now in the Lord.
1 John 2:11
But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and is spending his life in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
Revelation 3:17-18
For you keep saying, "I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing," and do not know that you are the wretched one, and pitiable and beggared and blind and naked.
1 Corinthians 2:14
The unspiritual man rejects the teachings of God's Spirit; for him it is folly. He cannot understand it, for it is spiritually discerned,